Bug 143868 - Mac Fonts are too large on non-retina display - UI
Summary: Mac Fonts are too large on non-retina display - UI
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.1.4.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) macOS (All)
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Reported: 2021-08-14 11:35 UTC by W Sanders
Modified: 2021-09-08 21:28 UTC (History)
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Description W Sanders 2021-08-14 11:35:00 UTC
Description:
I view my LO work on both Linux and MacOS and in Linux everything is "normal". 
When I work on my documents on an older Macbook Air with a non retina display, fonts are generally too large again. This got fixed for a while, but seems to have resurfaced in 7. 

Of course I can scale the view in the lower right hand size, but the scale is saved with the document, so I have to reset it each time I switch computers. I would like to request a fix, either of the following would be helpful:

- Do not save the scale setting in the document metadata
- Restore the scale or DPI option in the Preferences -> Libreoffice -> View settings

Since I see a lot of work was done recently with the new HiDPI feature I have a suspicion this is a side effect/ 

A screen shot is here, you can see that the font is rather big for 9 pt Liberation Sans:
 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XAmsnoKSF7otJOloKce3AeT9RXGmRx3zHqIxI0IrTzI/edit?usp=sharing



Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a spreadsheet on a Linux laptop
2. View it on a non-Retina Mac laptop
3.

Actual Results:
Fonts need to be scaled.

Expected Results:
Scaling the doc each time the doc is viewed on another display should not be necessary,


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
Rescaling the doc each time the doc is viewed on a different computer should not be necessary.

I have:
Macbook Air 11 inch mid 2011, macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (last version available for this Air)
Screen is 135 DPI (non-Retina)
Version: 7.1.4.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: a529a4fab45b75fefc5b6226684193eb000654f6
CPU threads: 4; OS: Mac OS X 10.13.6; UI render: GL; VCL: osx
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 MarjaE 2021-08-25 04:48:38 UTC
They're unreadably small for me in 7.1.4.2.
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2021-09-08 19:36:18 UTC
adjust your scaling for the external monitor

=-ref-=
[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/193723/scaling-all-ui-elements-when-using-an-external-monitor
Comment 3 W Sanders 2021-09-08 21:27:48 UTC
Well I really think you didn't understand the problem. The font size is only messy in LibreOffice and not in other apps. Scaling the display is not the solution.
Comment 4 W Sanders 2021-09-08 21:28:04 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)